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Planted Grasslands and Native Sod Prairie: Equivalent Habitat for Grassland Birds?

Western North American Naturalist, 2009
Little is known about how avian relationships to tracts of native sod prairie compare with avian relation- ships to single and multiple species of cool- and warm-season grassland plantings. We compared grassland bird species richness and density in 5 grassland cover types (n = 97) in the tallgrass prairie region of eastern South Dakota and west- ern ...
Bakker, Kristel K., Higgins, Kenneth F.
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The diversity of birds in typical urban lake-wetlands and its response to the landscape heterogeneity in the buffer zone based on GIS and field investigation in Daqing，China

European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2020
This study selected nine typical urban lake-wetlands in Daqing as the research object, and analyzed the key factors influencing diversity of the lake-wetland bird based on GIS technology and the field investigation.
Tianyi Chen, Lu Bao, Liu Bao Zhu, Yu Tian, Qing Xu, Yuandong Hu   +5 more
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Exploring nest destruction and bird mortality in mown Mediterranean dry grasslands: an increasing threat to grassland bird conservation [PDF]

European Journal of Wildlife Research, 2016
In recent years, haying has extended to Iberian Mediterranean dry grasslands potentially impacting on grassland bird ecology. We evaluated the impact of haying on a grassland bird community of South Portugal. Our main goals were: (1) to investigate the exposure of different species to haying, (2) to investigate potential removal of nests and dead birds
Nuno Faria, Manuel B. Morales, João E. Rabaça   +2 more
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Fragment connectivity shapes bird communities through functional trait filtering in two types of grasslands

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021
Habitat fragmentation is considered one of the most severe threatening factors for global biodiversity. Here we assessed, how local and landscape scale environmental variables, such as fragment size (small vs. large) and landscape configuration (measured
Fabio Marcolin, Tamás Lakatos, Róbert Gallé, Péter Batáry   +3 more
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Life path analysis: scaling indicates priming effects of social and habitat factors on dispersal distances [PDF]

, 2001
1. Movements of many animals along a life-path can be separated into repetitive ones within home ranges and transitions between home ranges. We sought relationships of social and environmental factors with initiation and distance of transition movements
Alonso J.C., Arthur S.M., Baker R.R., Barton N.W.H., Burt W.H., Bustamente J., Cooper W.E., Dare P.J., Davies N.B., Davies N.B., Doncaster C.P., Dunstan T.C., Eden S.F., Edwards C.A., Ferrer M., Fuller R.M., Fuller R.M., Gautestad A.O., Gibbons D., Glover B., Gonzalez L.M., Goss-Custard J.D., Goss-Custard J.D., Greenwood P.J., Guild W.J. McL., Haig S.M., Hohmann U., Holleback M., Howard W.E., Jennrich R.J., K. H. Hodder, Kenward R.E., Kenward R.E., Kenward R.E., Larsen K.W., Lee K.E., Lidicker W.Z., Macdonald D.W., Maxwell A.E., Newton I., Newton I., Nilsson J.A., Nilsson J.A., Picozzi N., R. E. Kenward, Rushton S.P., S. S. Walls, Schooley R.L., Spencer W.D., Sutherland W.J., Sutherland W.J., Tubbs C.R., Turchin P., Tyack A.J., Walls S.S., Walls S.S., Walls S.S., Warkentin I.G., Weir D.N., White G.C., Wiklund C.G.   +60 more
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Landscape characteristics influencing habitat use of grassland birds in the Pampas ecoregion of Argentina

Avian Conservation and Ecology
Understanding the influence of landscape composition on grassland bird habitat use is vital for predicting their fate in heavily fragmented ecosystems.
Clara Trofino-Falasco, María G. Pizzarello, María V Simoy, María F. Aranguren, Rosana E. Cepeda, Adrián S Di Giacomo, Claudia B. Marinelli, Gaston Moran, Maria C. Neyra, David G. Vera, Igor Berkunsky   +10 more
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Multiple components of environmental change drive populations of breeding waders in seminatural grasslands [PDF]

, 2018
Environments are rapidly changing due to climate change, land use, intensive agriculture, and the impact of hunting on predator populations. Here, we analyzed longterm data recorded during 1928–2014 on the size of breeding populations of waders at two ...
Asferg, Tommy, Balbontín Arenas, Javier, Haaning Nielsen, Henrik, Laursen, Karsten, Møller, Anders Pape, Thorup, Ole   +5 more
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30 years of hay meadow succession without fertilization: how does it affect soil and avifauna groups? [PDF]

, 2010
In the present study we investigated the effects of hay meadow succession in the brook valley system of the Drentse A Nature Reserve, in the NE of the Netherlands.
Bakker, Jan P., Bekker, Renée M., Brauckmann, Hans-Jörg, Buchwald, Rainer, Düttmann, Heinz, Vries, Yzaak de   +5 more
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The legacy of 20th Century landscape change on today’s woodland carabid communities [PDF]

, 2017
Aim For many species, the effects of landscape change can involve a time lag and result in an extinction debt. The landscape matrix plays a vital role in supporting species populations.
Adriaens, Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Aviron, Baessler, Barbaro, Bellamy, Berglund, Borcard, Braak, Brouwers, Cleveland, Cousins, Cousins, Cousins, Cristofoli, Diamond, Duflot, ESRI, Fahrig, Fuller, Haslem, Heikkinen, Hendrickx, Hinsley, Hooftman, Husáková, Jopp, Judas, Kuussaari, Legendre, Lindborg, Luff, Lunt, Mason, Mayfield, NERC, Neumann, Neumann, Oliver, Oxbrough, Piessens, Piqueray, Rackham, Rackham, Radford, Rybicki, Sang, Schweiger, Spencer, Taboada, Tilman, Vanbergen, Vickery, Walker, Warren, Watts, Wiezik   +56 more
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Keystone effects of prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) on grassland birds: Current knowledge and future directions

Conservation Science and Practice
Keystone species are critical to maintaining ecological relationships and ecosystem functioning around the world. Prairie dogs (Cynomys sp.) are a genus of colonial keystone species endemic to North American grasslands that modify bird community ...
R. Andrew Dreelin, Andy J. Boyce, Holly P. Jones   +2 more
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